How to Get the Most out of a Single Exposure Using Lightroom and Photoshop
This tutorial is all about getting the most out of your Lightroom + Photoshop workflow, pulling details out of an image, adjusting lighting so it works better, general image clean-up techniques all while editing in a non-destructive way.
Tutorial length: About an hour
There is a lot of work that Adobe Lightroom can handle quickly before you bring an image into Photoshop to final it, so let's take a look at some of the common tweaks to a photo that can be made in Lightroom, then let's do the deeper editing work with Photoshop after we've gotten the quick stuff out of the way.
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This tutorial is an advanced tutorial and assumes you know the basics of Photoshop, how to open files, what Lightroom is, and I use a few hotkeys in the tutorial which are:
- "x" switches between foreground/background color
- Typing "1" when in a brush sets the opacity of that brush to 10% and typing "0" sets the brush opacity to 100%, etc
- Holding ALT while in a brush allows you to pick a color by sampling from the image, clicking sets that color
- CTRL + Click on a channel to create a selection from that channel
- CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + Click will step a channel's selection down in value
- CTRL + L opens a levels adjustment on a Channel or Layer
- Holding ALT while clicking the New Layer icon brings up options for the layer (ability to name it, blending mode, fill with 50% gray, etc)
Techniques Covered:
- Using Lightroom to tweak color range and value range
- Editing a daylight, slot canyon photo start to finish
- How to bring out details of an image without over-sharpening it
- Precision-editing light/value range with luminosity masking
- Sharpening
- General image clean-up
Software Required: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Prerequisites:
None! I always recommend watching the Luminosity Masks: Dodge and Burn Like a Pro -- as that goes into one of the main techniques used here and in all other post production work. Also, that tutorial is free (although tips $$ are appreciated!)
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